# Pakistani cricket team in Australia in 2009–10

The Pakistan cricket team toured Australia for a 3-match Test series, a 5-match ODI series, and 1 Twenty20 International from 19 December 2009 to 5 February 2010.
During the final ODI match, the stand-in captain, Shahid Afridi, was involved in an alleged ball tampering incident, when he was seen biting the cricket ball. He was immediately called by the match referee after the match was over. There Afridi pleaded guilty to ball tampering and he was banned from two Twenty20 Internationals.
During the Twenty20 International, Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the fastest delivery ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h). Tait achieved the feat on the second ball of his first over. It is also the third fastest delivery ever recorded behind Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar.
Australia registered a clean sweep by winning the Test series 3–0, the ODI series 5–0 and the only T20.
During the tour, speculation was rife that captain Mohammad Yousuf was involved in a power struggle with former skippers Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik and that team morale was low.
Following the tour, the Pakistan Cricket Board conducted an inquiry and announced that Yousuf and Younis would not be selected for the country in future, implying a life exclusion, and banned Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for a year each. Afridi and the brothers Umar and Kamran Akmal were all fined and put on probation for six months. Kamran had been dropped after the second Test because of a string of dropped catches, but spoke out against the decision and insisted that he was not dropped, while Umar was accused of disruption by feigning injury in an attempt to go on strike in solidarity.

## Squads

| Tests | Tests | ODIs | ODIs | T20Is | T20Is |
| Australia | Pakistan | Australia | Pakistan | Australia | Pakistan |
| Ricky Ponting (c) Michael Clarke Doug Bollinger Nathan Hauritz Mike Hussey Mitchell Johnson Simon Katich Clint McKay Brad Haddin (wk) Marcus North Peter Siddle Shane Watson Phillip Hughes | Mohammad Yousuf (c) Salman Butt Khurram Manzoor Imran Farhat Misbah-ul-Haq Shoaib Malik Fawad Alam Faisal Iqbal Kamran Akmal (wk) Danish Kaneria Saeed Ajmal Umar Gul Mohammad Asif Mohammad Amir Abdur Rauf Umar Akmal Mohammad Sami Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) | Ricky Ponting (c) Michael Clarke Doug Bollinger Nathan Hauritz Mike Hussey Mitchell Johnson Cameron White Clint McKay Brad Haddin (wk) James Hopes Peter Siddle Shane Watson Shaun Marsh Adam Voges Ryan Harris Shaun Tait | Mohammad Yousuf (c) Shahid Afridi Umar Akmal Imran Farhat Fawad Alam Younis Khan Saeed Ajmal Umar Gul Kamran Akmal (wk) Shoaib Malik Khalid Latif Mohammad Amir Naved-ul-Hasan Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Salman Butt Rao Iftikhar Mohammad Asif | Michael Clarke (c) Cameron White Travis Birt Dirk Nannes Ryan Harris David Hussey Mitchell Johnson Shaun Marsh Brad Haddin (wk) Steve Smith Shaun Tait David Warner Shane Watson | Shoaib Malik (c) Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Mohammad Amir Imran Nazir Khalid Latif Mohammad Asif Naved-ul-Hasan Kamran Akmal (wk) Saeed Ajmal Salman Butt Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Umar Akmal Umar Gul |

## Tour matches
### 3-day tour match: Tasmania v Pakistanis - 19–21 December

* 19 – 21 December Scorecard
* Match drawn Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia Umpires: Steven John (Aus) and Paul Reiffel (Aus)
* Tasmania won the toss and elected to field.

## Test series
### 1st Test

* 26 – 30 December Scorecard
* Australia won by 170 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Attendance: 60,000 (Day1), 40,000 (Day2), 37,000 (Day3) Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat

### 2nd Test

* 3 – 7 January Scorecard
* Australia won by 36 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: MEK Hussey (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat
* Rain delayed start of play on day 1
* Bad light ended play early on day 1
* Play resumed half-an-hour early to make up the overs lost on day 1
At an inquiry after the series was completed, the management of the Pakistan team testified that they suspected that some of the Pakistan team conspired with bookmakers in match-fixing events during this match. Pakistani wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal missed four catches and a run-out in the Australian second innings as Australia turned around a substantial first innings deficit to win the Test. However, the Australian captain Ricky Ponting stated that he "certainly had no suspicions". Several months later, Mazhar Majeed a man who had accepted a bribe to provide information about spot-fixing during Pakistan's summer tour of England, stated that the match had been fixed and that the fixers had made more than a million pounds as a result of Pakistan's loss from a commanding position. There has been no other corroboration of Majeed's statements.

### 3rd Test

* 14 – 18 January Scorecard
* Australia won by 231 runs Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Rudi Koertzen (SA) Player of the match: RT Ponting (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat
* Sarfraz Ahmed made his test debut for Pakistan.
* Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting scored the highest partnership vs Pakistan. (352 runs)
* Ricky Ponting scored the first double hundred in a test match at Bellerive Oval.
* Rain ended play early on Day 4.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 22 January 2010 13:25 (D/N) Scorecard
| Pakistan 274 (49.4 overs) | v | Australia 275/5 (48.3 overs) |
| Salman Butt 72 (81) SR Watson 4/36 (10 overs) | | CL White 105 (88) Mohammad Amir 1/29 (9 overs) |
* Australia won by 5 wickets Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: CL White (Aus)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd ODI

* 24 January 2010 14:25 (D/N) Scorecard
| Australia 267/6 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 127 (37.3 overs) |
| SR Watson 69 (71) Mohammad Amir 3/53 (9 overs) | | Mohammad Yousuf 58 (94) CJ McKay 3/15 (7.3 overs) |
* Australia won by 140 runs Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: SR Watson (Aus)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

### 3rd ODI

* 26 January 2010 13:55 (D/N) Scorecard
| Australia 286/6 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 246 (47.4 overs) |
| SE Marsh 83 (113) Naved-ul-Hasan 2/57 (10 overs) | | Umar Akmal 59 (76) RJ Harris 5/43 (10 overs) |
* Australia won by 40 runs. Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and SJA Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

### 4th ODI

* 29 January 2010 12:20 (D/N) Scorecard
| Australia 277/8 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 142 (37.5 overs) |
| MEK Hussey 67 (75) Mohammad Asif 3/42 (10 overs) | | Umar Akmal 38 (60) RJ Harris 5/19 (9.5 overs) |
* Australia won by 135 runs Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) and RJ Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: RJ Harris (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

### 5th ODI

* 31 January 2010 12:20 (D/N) Scorecard
| Pakistan 212 (49.3 overs) | v | Australia 213/8 (49.2 overs) |
| Umar Akmal 67 (102) CJ McKay 4/35 (9.3 overs) | | RT Ponting 55 (78) Shahid Afridi 2/31 (10 overs) |
* Australia won by 2 wickets Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth, Australia Umpires: EAR de Silva (SL) & PR Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: CJ McKay (Aus)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Shahid Afridi filled in as captain after Mohammad Yousuf suffered a knee injury.
* Afridi banned for two T20Is after ball-tampering incident.
* A pitch invader crash tackled Khalid Latif

## Twenty20 International series

* 5 February 2010 19:35 (D/N) Scorecard
| Australia 127 (18.4 overs) | v | Pakistan 125/9 (20 overs) |
| DJ Hussey 40 (31) Umar Gul 3/20 (3.4 overs) | | Kamran Akmal 64 (33) SW Tait 3/13 (4 overs) |
* Australia won by 2 runs Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
* Attendance: 60,100 Umpires: PR Reiffel (Aus) & RJ Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: SW Tait (Aus)
* Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Travis Birt and Steve Smith made T20 debut for Australia and Imran Farhat made T20 debut for Pakistan.
* Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait bowled the quickest ball ever recorded in Australia (160.7 km/h).

## Media coverage
### Television

* Sky Sports (live) (HD) – United Kingdom and Ireland
* Star Cricket (live) – India and Bangladesh
* ESPN (live) – India (3rd Test & few ODI's)
* SKY Sport (live) (HD) – New Zealand
* Geo Super (live) – Pakistan
* PTV Home (live) – Pakistan
* Supersport (live) – South Africa
* Nine Network (live) – Australia
* Eurosport (live) – Europe
* DirecTV (live) – USA
* Caribbean Media Corporation (live) – Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Antigua
* StarHub (pay per view) – Malaysia and Singapore
* ShowSports (live) – Middle East

### Radio

* ABC Radio (live) – Australia
* Humara FM 94.6 (live) – Pakistan